The Salisbury Post from Salisbury, North Carolina • 1

Salisbury Sunday Post Weather VOL 189 NO 60 NEA Service SALISBURY SPENCER EAST SPENCER SUNDAY DECEMBER 30 1956 inal Edition Power To Use Troops Aid Plan Seen Ike Aim iMay Ask Congress S' Approval Victory theatre This picture was i Darkened Victory Movie Theatre of Threatened By Short Lived Blaze The firemen shot water into By THE ASSOCI ATED PRESS i SEE REDS DETERRED Reds To Howl 6 Over Aid Plan the southern vULU AX uvlV OilLu LX Xvl Vi LC cause of the fire has not been Soviet Union probably will react below our estimate This reflects the intensive activities of traffic the from clear Continued on page 6 DISVSTER AREA there coal to buy for stoves in Drown Victims Being Sought logging Band Search Pressed 29 I i A A a 1 LET OVER This an old summertime portrait of a This is a wintertime picture of Debra Evan Cauble 3 daughter cautioned might not Washington of suffocation bedroom Sat day the the suited crew from 8 divers resting sunken ORLEANS Qec 29 LP Turner 67 retired vics fires west area at 6 mid Continued cold Sunday ana Monday It was the first work on th? canal by a strictly crew although British rench salvace Navy Nurse ire Heroine two into sev paid to workers only for work ac tually performed At present workers who report at their jobs even though they are unable to work because of the lack of power oi materials draw 80 per cent of their normal wages The official Communist party newspaper Nepszabadsag warned that there will be at least 200000 unemployed In this nation of 10 million In the near future With these woes came a police curfew for New Year's Eve Au thorities ruled that restaurants and cafes could remain open only until 9 pm Everybody must be off the streets and in their homes by 10 pm In a decree published in the gov legal gazette factories and offices were ordered to give notice to their superfluous em ployes after Jan 1 They will get six weeks pay and after that a amount of the dole has not been published All workers who cannot be em ployed productively for any rea son except in producing coal and power must be discharged by eb 1 Both handworkers and white col lar workers will be affected by the new decree While young persons and manual workers stall can find jobs in the coal mines there is no such solu tion for other persons and office workers who now loose their jobs A sweeping reduction of the enormous bureaucratic system is expected to force tens of thou sands of government employes out of their jobs on the grounds such a public warning is urgently needed to keep Russia from gradually seiz ing control of Middle East coun tries such as Syria Egypt and Jordan PRICE Cents bill? Ten C(ntj SnIldiy first to multi LONG BEACH Calif Dec A Navy nurse was credited with giving the alarm which en abled 45 officers to escape from their burning quarters early to day at Terminal Island Naval Base Lt Thelma Maxwell was re turning to her rooms at the quarters at the base this morning when she noticed smoke coming from a nearby bachelor bachelor quarters Her outcry awoke sleeping occupants as flames began to spread ire and the Victory theatre are old opponents Three times now flames have licked at the movie house But always alert firemen have thwarted them The first major fire at the Victory occurred on June 21 1928 This broke out at 4:10 during the showing of a film The Post reported audience filed out very This blaze was blamed on the overheating of a ventilating fan in the balcony Damage was heavy and the theatre was closed Remodeling was scheduled which The Post reported would make the Victory "among the most elaborate of the smaller theatres of the state with an air of plenty of The second fire occurred on March 4 194" while the theatre was being remodeled during the prosperous post war years aulty wiring was blamed for the fire which broke out between the roof of the building and the ceiling of the auditorium It was a tough fire to fight and took almost three hours to sub due Damage was heavy The cause of fire has not been determined It was a spectacular fire because it was on the roof where it could be easily seen But it was the easiest of the three to put out It was fire's last chance to get at the theatre It is now closed and seats and other movie equipment are being moved out The owners of the building are Archibald Hedrick of New York and Mrs A Peeler of Salisbury The future use of the building Is the subject of considerable speculation here CAMDEN SC Dec 29 (ID Close mouthed law officers seek ing the hooded men attacked high school band director Guy Hutchins and shot an elderly man today apparently were going on the theory the group was inde pendent and not connected with organized Ktansmen Hutchins 52 beaten while tied to a tree Thursday night and re covering rapidly at the Hospital was emphatic in his opinion the group was not Klan connected On the floor below Hutchins was a 65 year old man officers declined to identify recovering from chest and arm pistol shot wounds he said a group of hooded men inflict ed days ago after criticizing his personal conduct Hutchins said ar men picked him up while he was changing a tire on a paved high way near here He was returning from a television appearance at Charlotte NC the United States weeks ago It has been charging that the United States is working to sup A NEW William president of the Southern Railway System died today at his Wave land Miss residence A native of Richmond Va Tur ner was located with the railway here from 1939 to 1953 when he retired He held positions with Southern earlier in Lynchburg and Norfolk Va Birmingham Ala and Wash ington DC START CLEARING SUEZ CANAL Dutch diver I lip Gwoud prepares to dive todav in waters southern Suez Canal entrance at ort Suez as work is launched on hi? job of clearing ranal of sunken and scuttled ships Gwoud is diving to sunken hulk of Egyptian naval vessel Abukir In background funnels and masts of scuttled Suez Canal Authority ship Hercules protrude above sur face I A PWirephoto via radio from Cairo) June 1928 and another serious fire hit it in March 1947 NOT THE PICTURE little girl eating watermelon of Air and Mrs Robert Cauble of 1409 Van Nurs Street The Caubles cut the watermelon riday The melon had been on the kitchen floor since August They had saved it to eat Christmas Day but went out of town They described the taste as bad at (Post Staff Photo by Livengood) A spectacular blaze threatened old theatre has suffered A dis roof of the building and smoke yesterday to turn into a funeral 1 astrous fire hit the building in was boiling into the sky In Newspapers Readers Welcome Advertising ROANOKE RAPIDS NC Dec 29 CD A search was pressed to day by boat airplane and on the ground for a young ministerial student and his 16 year old sister believed to have drowned in a sailboat mishap yesterday High winds that roughed the waters of the lake and foul weath er that cut visibility hampered the for Swain Loy 23 and his Suzanne 16 who failed to last night from an outing sailboat built by the young Retired Southern VP Is Dead so wide celebrators by and large port of Suez The UN salvage work is the first in the south though harbor clearance of the northern end was started by the British and rench before their troops pulled out of Port Said last Sat urday Some British rench sal vage vessels are staying on the job there with permission as members of the UN fleet With dozens of sunken ships lit tering the channel along with damaged bridges and other de bris an authoritative Egyptian source announced an agreement Wednesday for the start The work had been expected to open here yesterday but an Egyutian offi cial of the canal authority said he lacked orders from his headquar ters at Ismailia midway point on the canal US Lt Gen Raymond A Wheeler in charge of the canal project for the UN was reached by telephone this morning from Suez told them to start and they are preparing their he said know hap pening down there but my pre vious orders still was not heavy Other estimates ranged upward to several thous ands of dollars depending on the amount of water damage done to the interior of the old theatre It is thought to be covered by insurance A theatre crew from Atlanta has been working in the building the last few days removing the seats and other theatre equip ment The firemen were able to return to the station by 1:30 The alarm was sounded at I 11:50 a The firemen were kept busy with two minor matters around the same time They were called to "'th Main and Henderson Stre at 1 to wash gas off the street following an acci dent At 1:50 they were called to Grants where smoke was being smelled The trans former in a fluorescent fixture I burned out New lames Roar Toward Big Oil ield In his telegram the President mentioned no specific amount of federal assistance But in a letter to Vai Peterson chief of the fed eral Civil Defense administration Elsenhower authorized a grant of $100000 plus three per cert for administrative expenses The President told Knight that Civil Defense representatives be In touch with you as to the amount of funds available and necessary procedures to effect the required assistance" The blaze which hit Hidden Val ley shortly before noon today was the same brush fire which yester day blasted through the heavily populated Lake Sherwood area to the east A forecast of new so called winds" which move hot and dry off the desert dimmed hopes for early control of tlie Slierwood Hidden Valley fire and the other two brush still burning to the south and toward the Los Angeles coast search sister return in the man Rescue workers had planned to begin dragging the waters of the big lake which is 45 miles in circumference The rough water made this impossible The weath er also grounded four airplanes which had been pressed into the search However boats continued to search the lake and ground part ies slogged through thick woods along the lake in the hope that the youth and his sister both ex pert swimmers had managed to reach shore The two embarked for a sail around noon yesterday and their Continued on page 6 407 that was compiled during a four day holiday at the end of 1952 and the beginning of 1953 The record for any holiday peri od was written durins this 'observance of Christmas: 706 Suez Canal New Year ragediesiUndogging Short Of Yule PaceJob Starts Vm nf Man TIIL VICTORY AGAIN There was lots of excitement for a made as the aerial truck gets its ladder up to the roof of the Pilot few minutes yesterday at noon when fire broke out in the air building Staff Photo by Livengood) conditioning structure atop the Victory theatre This picture was pyre for the closed Victory Theatre or 30 minutes hundreds of Salisburlans attracted to the Square by the alarm and fire trucks saw a gaudy show that featured four streams of water jand numbers of firemen against A tnrrh likp alm the theatre roof Thp firp cfarfsrl In and re ui unu naaitiv oauuii me lire came quiCKiy unaer con TTnuaj largely restricted the metal i The fire yesterday looked ex krol 11 United S1 ates proclaims covering structure on the roofjtremely serious for 15 minutes! Although the damage appear A uad''ance determination to that housed the theatre's rc jor so before the water began jed restricted to the structure I ht if necessary to prevent this frigerating equipment (taking effect The flames Were i and its contents and to the roof i administration leaders be ing job of clearing wreckage of factors from the end of the the New blocked Suez Canal MALIBU Calif Dec 29 Another new brush fire today roared unchecked toward die Los Padres National orest and a big oil field near Piru about 35 miles due north of here The fire started in Blanchard Canyon this afternoon and quick ly spread over a wide area No homes appeared in immediate Ganger lae Hopper canyon oil field is In the path of the flames i firemen said Battalion Chief William Hag gard of the Ventura County ire Department said all available men and equipment were dis patched to the new blaze tDie Pju fire was the latest of a rash of blazes which have plagued Southern California this 1 past week destroying millions of i dollars worth of valuable water shed and homes Shortly before noon today separate blazes pushed north Hidden Valley the home of oral movie stars and million dol lar ranches Chief Haggard said the fires burning in rugged almost inac cessible terrain along the valley's southern edge posed no immedi ate threat to Hidden Valley Residents have been alerted but no scale evacuation had been ordered as first reported Hollywood entertainers living in the area include actors George Brent and Alan Ladd and aciress Eve Arden All there were re ported at home The Hidden Valley blaze was the same brush fire which yester day blasted through the heavily populated Lake Sherwood area to the cast In Augusta Ga President Ei senhower today designated the fire damaged regions as a major disaster area and allocated an ini tial $100000 in federal aid rom the Augusta National Golf Club where he is spending the weekend Eisenhower wired Gov Goodwin Knight of California of his action a 400 million dollar Mid aid program and may to keep US for use in that seem certain denunciations There has been no cfficial com ment on the Washington reports i but the Kremlin has set the pat By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The New Year's hoLday period 1 has brought at least five violent deaths to North Carolina The long holiday period which began pm riday extends through public to anneals for a better tra Reports from Washington that fic WASHINGTON Dec 29 LD President Eisenhower is reported ready to ask Congress for emer 1 gency authority to use American armed forces in the Middle East if necessary to safeguard the area against Red aggression and subversion This extraordinary would be coupled with a specia 490 million dollar aid program to I bolster the economy of all Mid 1 east nations which want to co operate with the United States The full scope of the double barreled program already ap proved by the top National Sec urity Council will be unveiled by Eisenhower to congressional lead ers at a White House meeting New Year's Day Eisenhower and his secretary of i state John oster Dulles are re 1 ported ready to make a vigorous fire hit it in March 1947 the blaze from the gound from i appeal for congressional support! was me secunu time enav msiae tne ouiiaing and from firemen have spotted the blazes the roof The big ladder truck Assistant Chief Garland Michael was put into action from the who was off duty noticed the Innes Street side and the fire men swarmed up tnc rungs and oUJiiZf Dec 2n 'a deaths in traffic 54 in fires 124 salvage fleet after repeated in other accidents for an over all delays today began the stagger total of 884 There are a number that could hold down toll irst travel is not Then state and city police Continued on page Two Bragg soldiers High Point met death late riday when their automobile struck a bridge railing on the post The victims were Spec 3C Ralph Bennett 24 and Sp 3C inley Robbins 22 Joe Monks 22 old Negro was killed Saturday when his automobile was struck by a lor ida bound Seaboard Air Line Rail road passenger train at a cross ing near Apex A Charlotte man Meadows 51 died in his smoke filled for an over all total of 116 By 11 pm EST last Saturday during the Christmas weekend V'tl'riKrtf rf fn 1 i zsr Ned Dearborn president of At Least ive i the National Safety Council is definitely encouraging i Mq 5J Im The that the toll continues to run weil'UHnll I Old Victory Has Survived Three Assaults By lames fire yesterday as he was men swarmed up the rungs and coming out of the Ketner Groc (onto the roof of the Pilot Build ery on East Innes Street Theming next to the Victory After 1947 fire was spotted by firemen their hoses were put Into action at the station I the fire came quickly under con I The fire yesterday looked ex trol Although the damace armour muiusuuu 1 so before the water began fed restricted tn the 11 neuessary to prevent thi a a a fz IL4 I VO sz 11 vC 1 1 UO 1 i VA tv I vv A I It was the third fire that the shooting many feet above the of the theatre it appeared to 1 Russia wiu avoid any mis 'alrmlnGnn 41 4 However Dearborn that the lower trend hold up as the four day holiday night Tuesday New Day weekend advances But he added that if it did "it would be a won derful way to start 1957" NSC had predicted that 490 Americans would be killed in mo tor vehicle accidents during the period that began at 6 pm (local time) riday night and will end at midnight Tuesday A total that high would set a new record for a New Year's oeri plant Britain and rance as od exceeding the current mark of lomal of the Middle East Some Soviet commentators even have accused Washington of plan ning tie British rench invasion of Egypt in order to weaken its Middle East position $400 Million "Happy New Year" At Any Season Hungarian Misery Mounting As Supplies Of Coal Dwindle BUDAPEST Hungary Dec 29 (A3) Misery Piled up today as rebellious Hungarians approached a bleak and unhappy 1957 Lack of coal closed Budapest's central heating plant in below freezing temperature Nor was family dwellings Premier Janos Russian imposed government announced that after Jan 1 wages will be thi teams began clearing the north rt 4 5 am a a a CIU cuu at U4L OdiU auu on for the after their armed forces quit Egypt The signal for the work to begin at this southern entrance to the 103 mile waterway came from Lt Gen Raymond A Wheeler the canal expert in charge of the clearance operation A spokesman for Wheeler said operations for the time be ing will be limited to end of the canal All through the marked with buoys places of some of ships A Dutch diver was enter the water to begin the nation clearing operation The diver lip Gwoud up with the help of four members aboard a launchthe Danish tug Protector Then he slid off into the water at the 1200 ton Egyptian warship Abukir fully submerged and lying on its side The wreck is to be cut up with oxygen a cetylene torches and the pieces hoisted to the canal banks Two sunken ships of Suez Canal Authority The Her cules and the Castor also must be removed from the entrance With similar problems Egyp tian crews are working on salvage of tne 4000 ton Zamalek an Egyp flan ship bottling the harbor of pvt ux cuez The number of New Year's holi day traffic deaths rose slowly Sat urday night at a rate far short of the Christmas weekend slaugh ter A safety expert termed the cihiaHrkn nnnnitri rr ua Liiv viicaiiu ra auLtniru iaj ffl fi inn that It bered in nine instead of heading for a far off continued on page vi ana in oiner Kinas oi acciaencs family home TLC xliCi kzilcLl ICO Xj XJU LXkCvV' said that one fireman Waller was injured during the blaze He was attempting to pull a line through the ceiling into the space below the roof when he injured an arm A hospital examination showed that a bone was broken and his arm was put in a cast Chief Burkett said that the MOSCOW Deo 29 W) ri i 11 I inn I 11 AW WWW tt 1 t) Tmanc taf rna a i UCLCXXUiJltU xiuwevcx Xie baiu uar mv hmvhj auLAViLVD Ui Udiuu seems apparent that careless I an explosion of violent words enforcement agencies and officers ness was to blame He said the i no deeds observers hre i and the response of the driving power to the motors that op S3a today erated the refrigerating eouin i ment had been cut off several the Eisenhower administration is days ago planning Some men had been working die Eas! around the structure earlier in ask for authority the morning in preparation for troops standing by removing the equipment from area if necessary the roof Conjecture has been to provoke Soviet that a cigarette or some other man made fire set tne building ablaze The chief said the damage tem of Its propaganda line agains: 1 i a mwirn ujt nr jwi 1 miiii um 1 ui in 1 kW Ha Mhm 1 VJ 'IW jfiMfr irr Ofr Aifla Jnrcin A Zz Juo If s8 HHL 1 a Efess r' zOw A A Xxkx Til I I I I SaaBMEShfe 3rr' I 'z tdSSf' if WU Vf T' ssL I Ji 11 I 1 I I I III 11 JA AAA 4 A 'A 1 '4 I I I is.